Huawei builds its own artificial intelligence foundation and develops steadily under blockades.

Huawei Builds Its Own AI Foundation and Develops Steadily Despite Blockades

Huawei is building its own AI foundation. The company has launched a new server cluster using semiconductors developed in-house and released a high-performance AI model developed with its own semiconductors. Against the backdrop of US semiconductor export controls and restricted access to technologies, Huawei is steadily enhancing its capabilities in developing and using AI. SemiAnalysis, a US semiconductor industry analysis firm, pointed out that the "Ascend chips equipped in Huawei's new servers are five times that of Nvidia's 'GB200' servers. Although the performance of a single GPU is only one-third of that of Nvidia's, this shortcoming can be compensated for by the quantity." The power consumption is also nearly four times that of Nvidia's servers, but it is expected to achieve better performance than Nvidia's servers. Huawei announced its training results in early May. In the training of an ultra-large model with 718 billion parameters, 6,000 Ascend chips were used to achieve performance comparable to that of "DeepSeek R1".

—— Nikkei Asia

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